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  1. diehardtwinsfan
    Sorry, cannot resist.. Promoting to a game thread!!! BASEBALL!!!!!!!!
  2. diehardtwinsfan
    I'd like to see that walk rate drop, but lefties in the majors don't have to rely on speed quite the same that a righty does. I think Gonsalves has potential to be better than average, perhaps not that ace, but he could be a 2/3 for years. He's certainly exceeded expectations, but do remember he was considered to be a potential first round pick until he fell. I'd like to see him in AAA this season, and I wouldn't be against an aggressive move here to start this spring. He's a 40 man add guy for next year, so giving him some time at the highest ML level should give us a good picture as to his readiness in 2018.
  3. diehardtwinsfan
    You need to let the number go. Not everyone has the same body type. Some can carry 270 a whole lot better than the rest of us. From the looks of it, Sano is one of those guys.
  4. diehardtwinsfan
    Will the real Boof Bonser please stand up?
  5. diehardtwinsfan
    I'd hate to think about what that does to the lining of his esophagus.
  6. diehardtwinsfan
    Seth, I cannot see Garver making the team out of ST, and that is coming from one of his biggest fans on this board. I've got to think that will most likely be JRM unless he shows this spring that last year wasn't a fluke. Even if JRM shows he's not the option, I've got to think Giminez is above Garver. No doubt that Garver is the future, but I think a few more months in AAA will help him.
  7. diehardtwinsfan
    I seem to remember more than one poster getting a bit upset about those non-personal attacks that were really just veiled personal attacks. You needed thick skin to post there, that was for sure.
  8. diehardtwinsfan
    One thing I cannot help but notice is that Gordon maintained an .800+ OPS into August last year. I wonder how much of that final drop off had something to do with him simply being tired out. Let's also not forget that the FSL is not a hitter friendly league. Reading what others have said about him, his hit tool is pretty solid, and that is going with an average or better glove. A guy like this at #4 on the list is pretty good, given a floor of a major league regular and a ceiling still being a very good player. He's young for his league, and posted some pretty good numbers. This isn't a guy to be worried about... not yet at least.
  9. diehardtwinsfan
    Is this affecting his arm angle too? I seem to remember that he raised his angle leading to worse results last year.
  10. diehardtwinsfan
    Interesting prospect posted on MILB. Wonder where he'd fall... http://www.minorleagueball.com/2017/2/19/14657054/mlb-draft-prospects-garrett-cave-opening-eyes-with-tampa
  11. diehardtwinsfan
    Sometimes I really wonder if people's expectations of prospects need to be changed. Jay wore out over the season, that is without question and hardly unexpected given the transition. I don't think a position of "one more year" when he dominated opponents in FTM is hardly appropriate. He's going to need to log more innings, yes.... and that was hardly unexpected when he was drafted as we all knew he was a project in this area. He pitched quite well when he was on, and I think the big goal for 2017 is to put up similar numbers to what he did in FTM and make it about 120 IP. That would put him on track for a 160 or so IP season in Rochester in 2018 and ML ready in 2019.
  12. diehardtwinsfan
    I could have sworn we were bashing coaches earlier this year when Kepler admitted that his resurgence was because he approached BP with a plan (particularly using the whole field)... at some point this is complaining for the sake of complaining. I have no problems expecting hitters to know how to an outside pitch to the opposite field, especially if they are getting a steady diet of pitches that they cannot pull. I have no problems telling a hitter to pull the heck out of that high and inside pitch as well or using an upper cut swing to elevate everything. Oh, and lest we forget, Ramirez was a career .312 hitter with an OBP .100 points higher, he had no problems making contact, something Vargas cannot claim.
  13. diehardtwinsfan
    yeah that.
  14. diehardtwinsfan
    Not the best night for Wright either. http://floridagators.com/boxscore.aspx?path=baseball&id=12660
  15. diehardtwinsfan
    I used to work for a company in the Beaverton area. I'll just say that Portland summers are very nice.
  16. diehardtwinsfan
    There's different kinds of 4th starters. Milone has a lot more risk given his complete inability to miss bats. Mejia has at least shown the ability to do so (so far). Even if the end game is a 4th starter, there's a lot less risk to a guy like Mejia if he's getting 7k/9 with a decent BB rate. That type of pitcher can be flipped for something decent at the deadline.
  17. diehardtwinsfan
    and now we see why it is we've been so bad of late.
  18. diehardtwinsfan
    JB may have nothing less to prove so to speak, but his major league time was nothing short of a disaster. While I'd prefer him in the rotation over Santiago, I don't have a problem with him being depth in AAA while working on control/command issues. He will be up at some point as someone always gets hurt.
  19. diehardtwinsfan
    I think there's no question about the high ceiling here. Terry Ryan isn't going to write a check for 4M for a 16 year old unless he's really REALLY high on him. I don't think he's going to have extreme power, like say Sano, but with a good plate approach, you could be looking at an .800 OPS type guy with average to better defense at SS. That's a fine a prospect, which is why he's ranked high. I think this season in the GCL and hopefully Etown will probably put his name out there nationally. He's one of those guys that with a good season would end up on a lot of top 100 lists next year at this time.
  20. diehardtwinsfan
    Here's the box score. Wrights overall line wasn't impressive. Hope that's just a blip. http://www.vucommodores.com/sports/m-basebl/stats/2016-2017/0216usd.html
  21. diehardtwinsfan
    I wasn't saying you implied as such. I was saying that nearly everyone had Appel as BPA of that draft.
  22. diehardtwinsfan
    Nearly everyone did.
  23. diehardtwinsfan
    yeah, I like Greene, but I'm really hoping Wright or Faedo both make major strides forward, to the point that ace is a legit upside there too. I'll take the ace much closer to the show in that scenario.
  24. diehardtwinsfan
    Is Kendall a JR or SR? That makes a big difference. He can do that if he's a JR, but that's quite a bit of risk for a college senior.
  25. diehardtwinsfan
    Hughes in the rotation is going to depend on his velocity come mid-March in my opinion. If it's back, he's a lock. If it's not, he's to the pen.
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